Auction house Guernsey’s offered nearly 40 items from Nuestra Senora de Atocha and other 17th and 18th century ships for discovery’s 30th anniversary A gold chalice was among the treasure offered by auction house …

It fetched $413,000. A "money chain" of large gold links from the Nuestra Senora de Atocha (noo-EHS'-truh seen-YOHR'-uh ah-TOH'-chuh) sold for $75,000. The New York auctioneer offered 40 select items salvaged from …

It fetched $413,000. A "money chain" of large gold links from the Nuestra Senora de Atocha sold for $75,000. The New York auctioneer offered 40 select items salvaged from the ships by treasure hunter Mel Fisher decades ago. He found 40 tons of silver and ...

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Life Without Plot In 'Leaving The Atocha Station'

Ben Lerner's debut novel, Leaving the Atocha Station is one of the most compelling books about nothing I've ever read. Ordinarily, I'm not a fan of this kind of spinning-one's-wheels-in-the-sand fiction. Austen and Dickens and Hammett got to me early and ...

Madrid's Atocha train station was evacuated Friday morning after a man threatened to blow up a train. See also: Queen's Guards moved back from public over fears of 'lone wolf' attacks Terrorist protocals were put into action, but shortly before 11 a.m ...

The train from Madrid's southern Vallecas district was evacuated some 400 metres (440 yards) before entering Atocha station after a man carrying a backpack threatened to blow up the train. The busy central station was also evacuated after the incident but ...

On July 20, 1985, U.S. treasure hunter Mel Fisher discovered the sunken treasure of the Spanish galleon, Nuestra Señora de Atocha. The ship was part of a fleet of Spanish ships that sank in 1622 after sailing through a hurricane. Fisher spent nearly 17 ...

Memories of a horrendous terrorist attack came flooding back when Madrid’s main railway station was closed over a bomb alert that turned out to be false. Passengers had their journeys disrupted and Atocha station was closed for almost an hour. In March ...

Madrid's Atocha main train station, the scene of a 2004 bomb attack which killed nearly 200 people, was evacuated on Friday after a bomb warning that turned out to be false. A man on a commuter train had been threatening to blow up himself, and another ...

The Atocha train station in Madrid was evacuated on Friday and when police claimed arrest of a suspect suicide bomber. However after evacuation, police claimed it found nothing from suspect and he was carrying just a bottle of water in his backpack.